7th Slate Enters UC Race-Again

One more ticket will run against the crop of candidates gunning to lead the Undergraduate Council (UC), after a presidential ticket withdrew via e-mail but a UC official said the virtual missive was illegitimate.

Amadi P. Anene ’08 decided to renege on his petition to run with Kyle A. De Beausset ’08-’09 because of what he said were “family complexities”—but the day after the deadline, he decided he wanted back in, and sent another e-mail to Election Commission Chairman Joshua G. Allen ’09.

The incident represents the first time in recent memory that a presidential ticket has withdrawn and reentered.

Allen said Anene filed his candidacy by the Sunday deadline but expressed reservations via e-mail that night.

Allen sent an e-mail early Monday morning with only six tickets listed—but said yesterday that Anene’s withdrawal was never considered official.

“Resignations require hand-written declarations from campaigns because e-mails are way too easily faked, so his withdrawal wasn’t acceptable,” Allen said.

The Anene-De Beausset tickets joins six others, more than doubling the number of last year’s race.

Anene is currently a member-at-large for SAC, so he can focus more on “legislation.”

“It was more so a real hunger to bring about change in a unique way that motivated me to run,” Anene said last night of his candidacy.
De Beausset, who is a Crimson editorial editor, has never served as a council representative.

Anene called their partnership an “insider-outsider” ticket. They join Gillis-Wimberly as another pair combining UC experience with a newcomer’s perspective.

Debates are slated to start Nov. 29, Allen said.

—Lulu Zhou contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Margaret W. Ho can be reached at mwho@fas.harvard.edu.